*CASTING* New documentary TV show about “Rock Groupies”
Do you consider yourself a Groupie, Super Fan, or Rock Muse? Do you love local music and musicians? Do you go out to see bands around Los Angeles and Orange County? Is music a huge part of your life?
If so, an award winning documentary production company and Pamela Des Barres, bestselling author of “I’m With the Band,” are casting for a new television series about Rock Groupies.
We are looking for fun, outgoing, energetic, devoted female fans of local Southern California bands and musicians to share their stories.
Please e-mail us rockmuses@yahoo.com , with the following:
- A brief description of yourself
- Some of the local bands and clubs that you like
- Your daytime and evening contact information
- A recent photograph
Thanks!!!
And maybe it helps if your photograph looks a bit like this:
Anyway, I would think that here in LA, these people would not have much of a problem finding groupies. Stalking tendencies have been well developed in this town. After you've lived here for a whole like, 30 seconds, you just sort of figure out where to go to see the rock star of your dreams misbehaving. Depending on what you're into. Hang out on the Sunset Strip for the rockers. Hang out in Hollywood for the punkers. Hang out in Silverlake for the indie kids. And for Scott Weiland, hang around the rehab center.
I have been accused of being a groupie. While I do love music, I have also enjoyed working in the music industry and have been fortunate enough to meet some of my favorite musicians. However, I lack the one thing necessary to be a true groupie: Sluttiness. Hey, I'm not knocking it, I just don't have fun being slutty. Doesn't work for me. Although I do have a bit of a habit of dating guitar players. Good ones, even. A couple of them were even the lead guitar/singer/songwriter/producer/etc... types. One of them was even enough of a rock star even to have girls showing up randomly on his doorstep, a thing for cocaine, and probably a bipolar disorder. But he was fun. For a little while, anyway...
That lifestyle gets old. Ladies, I don't advise dating musicians. And the first time it happened to me, it was totally by accident. I didn't even know he was in a band, just thought he had great taste in music (they always do). Most of the time when you date a guy in a band, you find yourself lower on their priority list than say, replacing their guitar strings, and that's just a drag. The guys I dated were really sweet and kind (we're all still pals), just self absorbed and very dedicated to their "craft." If he also happens to be a partier, then things just get repetitive. I could never be a "real" groupie because, for me, the same cycle of booze, porn, strangers and drug addled conversation just gets tedious.
When I was involved with manic-depressive druggie alcoholic guy, he used to say, "Mo, what I love about you is that I can talk to you without dumbing things down." I like talking to people without dumbing things down too, which is probably why the next guy I date will be an architect or something.
